Alliances, accession, sanctions, arms and aid — the outside decisions that set what is possible inside.
A price cap enforced through Western insurance can be answered by buying old tankers and insuring them elsewhere. By 2024 the response was to designate the…
By 2024 European sanctions reached liquefied natural gas for the first time, and the way it was done shows how these decisions are actually made.
The European Council decided in December 2023 to open accession talks. The first quarter of 2024 was spent turning that decision into a document that says…
The thirteenth package arrived on the second anniversary. Reading the sanctions record after two years tells you more about how coalitions hold than any single measure…
On 14 December 2023 the European Council decided to open accession negotiations with Ukraine. Eighteen months earlier the country had been granted candidate status with seven…
By late 2023 the European Union was preparing a further package, and the arguments inside it revealed exactly where the political limits sat.
By the third quarter of 2023 the interesting question was no longer what to prohibit. It was why prohibited goods were still arriving.
When the grain arrangement lapsed in July 2023, the expectation was that Ukrainian seaborne exports would stop. Instead Ukraine declared its own corridor, hugging the western…
The eleventh package in June 2023 was less about new prohibitions than about a new capability: the power to restrict exports to a third country whose…
By mid-2023 Ukraine had entered a rhythm that most candidate countries find uncomfortable: a published external assessment of what has and has not been done.
Candidate status came with a list of things to do. The list turned out to be more useful than the status.
By 2023 the sanctions effort had changed character. The tenth package added measures, but the real work had moved to enforcement: circumvention, third countries, and the…
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